Bøger udgivet af De Gruyter Mouton

Generative phonology aims to formalise two distinct aspects of phonological processes: the functional and the representational. Since functions operate on representations, it is clear that the functional aspect is influenced by the form of representations, i.e. different types of representation require different types of rules, principles or constraints. This volume examines the representational issue in phonology and considers what kind of representation is most appropriate for recent models of generative phonology. In particular, it provides the first platform for debate on the place of morpheme-internal structure and on the formal status of phonology in the language faculty, and attempts to identify phonological recursive structure as a means of capturing frequently observed processes.

While most of the more recent influential work on swearing has concentrated on English and other languages from the Global North, looking at forms and functions of swear words, this contribution redirects the necessary focus onto a sociolinguistics of swearing that puts transgressive practices in non-Western languages into the focus. The transdisciplinary volume contains innovative case studies that address swearing and cursing in parts of the world characterized by consequences of colonialism and increasingly debated inequalities. Turning away from more conventional and established methodologies and theoretical approaches, the book envisages to address transgressive linguistic practices, performances and contexts in Africa, Asia, America and Europe -including individuals' creativity, subversive power and agency. Due to its interdisciplinary and non-mainstream focus, this volume is an essential addition to the field of studies.

This book examines emblems (or emblematic gestures) from a pragmatic view, that is to say, as autonomous gestures that fulfill communicative functions, embody illocutionary values, and act as signals of cognitive relevance. Emblems are conceived as multimodal tools on the frontier between verbal and nonverbal modes, and are part of the communicative repertoire of individuals and sociocultural groups. Emblems constitute clear cases of embodiment and are susceptible to many processes of metaphorization (contrasting or not with verbal metaphors), metonymy, and interference between modalities. The applications of emblematic analysis are numerous, from lexicography to second language learning, or to natural language processing.

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- I. Introduction -- II. The Development of the Nien -- III. The Nien Organization and Leadership -- IV. Relations of the Nien with Other Rebels -- V. A History of the Nien Movement and Its Suppression -- VI. The Weapons of the Nien Army and Their Guerrilla Tactics -- VII. Causes of the Prolonged War against the Nien Army -- VIII. Conclusion: The Effect of the Nien Rebellion on the Fate of the Manchu Dynasty -- Bibliography -- Index

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Articles -- Head operations and strata in reduplication: a linear treatment -- A descriptive gap in morphology -- The external syntax of derived words: evidence from Dutch -- On the morphological parallelism between compounds and constructs -- Some implications of phonologically conditioned suppletion -- 'Word syntax' and semantic principles -- Head-types in morpho-syntax -- On the role of semantics in productivity change -- Towards a theory of blocking: the case of Italian and German quality nouns -- Compound syntax and head movement -- The notion of 'head' in morphology -- Morphological heads: evidence from Swahili -- Review Article -- Morphological and syntactic objects: a review of Di Sciullo and Williams' On the definition of word -- Book Reviews -- Review of J. Boase-Beier, Poetic Compound Formation in English -- Review of R.P. Botha, Form and Meaning in Word Formation: A Study of Afrikaans Reduplication -- Review of J. Aitchison, Words in the Mind: An Introduction to the Mental Lexicon -- Review of J. Hoeksema, Categorial Morphology -- Book notices -- Publications received -- Notes to contributors

The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert

Die These dieser Arbeit ist, dass der Konjunktiv in der indirekten Rede ein logophorischer Modus ist, d.h. ein Verbmodus, der sich auf eine von der Sprecherperspektive verschiedene Perspektive bezieht. Dieser Vorschlag wird formal-semantisch ausgearbeitet und gegen eine Reihe von anderen formal-semantischen Vorschlägen in der Literatur verteidigt.

Frontmatter -- Editor's Preface -- Authors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Concept 'Mathematical Linguistics' (Preliminary Remarks) -- 2. Formal Grammars -- 3. Glasses of Generative Grammars -- 4. Generative Grammars and Natural Languages -- 5. On Some Formal Properties of Generative Grammars -- 6. Some Other Notions and Problems of Mathematical Linguistics -- Conclusion -- Appendix: A Synopsis of Mathematical Results -- Bibliography -- Supplement

This handbook provides the first broadly comprehensive, typologically-informed descriptive overview of the languages of Greater Amazonia. Organized by genealogical units, the chapters provide empirically rich descriptions of the phonology and grammar of all Amazonian families and isolates for which data and descriptions exist. Volume 1 focuses on the many isolates of the region - those languages for which no extant sisters can be identified.

The Contributions to the Sociology of Language series features publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It addresses the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches ¿ theoretical and empirical ¿ supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of scholars interested in language in society from a broad range of disciplines ¿ anthropology, education, history, linguistics, political science, and sociology. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher.

Dynamic language practices of African multilingual speakers have not been cogently described in a book-length manuscript. This book challenges assumptions that led to South Africa's 11 official languages and makes a case for mutual inter-comprehensibility. Students, teachers, and scholars in sociolinguistics, multilingualism, translanguaging, and teacher education will find this book thought-provoking.

Im Handbuch wird Sprache im urbanen Raum als Forschungsfeld umrissen. Urbanität wird dabei als ein nicht zuletzt sprachlich konstituiertes System von spezifisch aufeinander bezogenen Dimensionen, Aktionen und Repräsentationen verstanden. Im Zentrum steht die Erörterung tradierter und innovativer Ansätze, Methodologien und Theorien der Urban Linguistics unter Berücksichtigung interdisziplinärer Schnittstellen. Der Band vermittelt Grundlagenwissen zu einem zentralen Forschungsfeld interdisziplinär interessierter Linguistik.

This book applies the tools of nanosyntax to the natural language phenomenon of negation. Most work on negation is concerned with the study of sentence negation, while low scope negation or constituent negation is hardly ever systematically discussed in the literature. The present book aims to fill that gap, by investigating scopally different negative markers in a sample of 23 typologically diverse languages. A four-way classification of negative markers is argued for and it is shown how meaningful syncretism patterns arise across those four groups of negative markers in the language sample investigated. The syncretisms are meaningful in that they track the natural semantic scope of negation, and provide support to the idea that morphology is not arbitrary, but points to submorphemic structure. Consequently, this study leads to a decomposition of the negative morpheme into five privative features: Tense, Focus, Classification, Quantity and Negation proper. Finally, the book argues that sentence, constituent and lexical negation can all be treated in the same module of the grammar, i.e. syntax.

Seniority-based hierarchy (jouge kankei) is omnipresent in Japanese group dynamics. How one comports, depends on one¿s status and position vis-à-vis others. To-date, no study shows what constitutes this hierarchy, where and when individuals growing up in Japan first come into contact with it, as well as how they learn to function in it. This book fills in the lacunae. Considering jouge kankei as a social institution and adopting a discourse analytic approach, this volume examines the ways in which institutional jouge kankei as an enduring feature of Japanese social life are created and reproduced. The monograph analyses how seniority-based relations are enacted, legitimised, transmitted, and reified by social actors through language use and paralinguistic discursive practices, such as the use of space, objects, signs, and symbols. It also looks at how established rules could be challenged. The empirical data on which findings are based are gathered through 10 months of ethnographic fieldwork from 2015 to 2018 in Japanese schools, with certain types of data (school club etiquette books and uniforms) being presented and analysed for the first time. This volume also shows continuity and change of jouge kankei from school to work.

Multilingualism has become an increasingly common global phenomenon especially in the last two decades. Therefore, multilingual programmes have now been regarded as a cornerstone of education systems in many countries around the world. Learning multiple languages helps us plug into a globalised world and strengthen links with a multitude of speakers from a diversified reality we live in. Thanks to the researched cases described in the chapters, further developments aimed at fostering multilingual practices in the contemporary world will be enhanced. The chapters included in the present volume, provide an overview of current theory, research and practice in the field. They deal with such prominent research topics as multilingual education, language policies, language contact, identity of multilingual speakers, to name only a few. The selected chapters focus on the numerous and heterogeneous relations between languages. They also incorporate a series of contextualized studies with diverse research designs applied in different settings across the globe. This volume constitutes a pivotal reference source for the latest scholarly material on multilingualism from twelve different countries. It is a thought-provoking collection that provides a series of rich insights into the way multilingualism is practised in international contexts. It is ideally designed for academics, upper-level students, educators, professionals and practitioners seeking linguistic and pedagogical guidance on multilingualism.

The overarching goal of this volume is to explore a number of recent developments in Phase Theory (both theoretical and empirical), thus contributing to our overall understanding of the concept of phases.The volume is divided into three parts, of which the first focuses on the traditional role played by phases in defining successive cyclicity, while at the same time examining the interaction between that traditional role and Chomsky (2013)¿s proposal about labeling. The second part focuses on the question of whether only the highest projection of the clausal and nominal domain, CP and DP, are phases or whether those domains also contain an internal phase: vP and NP/NumP/QP, while the third part contains two chapters that focus on the extent to which ellipsis can be used as a reliable diagnostic for phasehood.As a whole, the volume provides a detailed and in-depth view on a number of recent developments in Phase Theory, which will likely continue to dominate the debate for several years to come.